POV Narrator:
Akko, Lotte and Sucy decided to break the rules and went to the realm of fairies, much to help poor Sifla to find her two friends, Alan and Feoras, but not everything turned out as expected, even more so because they ended up in a situation that could be the end of their lives, since they were caught by Cait Sith during the coronation of the king, and were about to be executed, in a very tense moment, but that Kagari has already passed something similar during her adventure in the mind of Sucy.
POV Akko:
Why does this world have to be like this, I'm going to be decapitated by a bunch of cute kittens wearing trousers, never would I expect that something like this would happen in my life, damn I thought the amulet Sifla gave me would save me at such an hour, before I arrived I was already about to think of a way to fight back, their own king waves for everyone to stop.
"Stop! Don't execute them! They are children and one of them has Sifla's amulet, bring it to me, we cannot commit atrocities during the mourning period of our former king's passing," said the king and now I breathed a sigh of relief, really when I went to think about him things eased up.
So we walked to the throne where the king sat all elegant, even looking big, but he was so tall that he hit my chest, the cutest thing in the world, we got close to the cat, he smelled good I admit, more smelly than the other cats here and I could already see that Lotte also showed that she thought the cat was the cutest.
"What do you do with this amulet?" asks the king.
"Sifla entrusted me with this amulet, she said I would need it for some important mission, involving fetching two of her friends" I tell myself.
"A pity I can't punish them for their behaviour, but you know it's against the laws and rules for witches to set foot in the faerie realm, Cait Sith is wanting me to punish them, but I'll be a benevolent king, you knew you couldn't step in here and yet you did" He said all pompous, bleh, all the kitten cuteness is gone what a petulant beast, the way it is just like Diana when I met her.
"We came at Sifla's request, she wanted us to meet her friends, Feoras and Alan, she is crying a lot, her eyes have even turned red until she cries" I tell him who gets a little smile, leave aside Diana would never smile like that, he is worse than her.
"Hmmmmm, so that's it, you are trying to find Sifla's friends, I can help you find Feoras, I know exactly where he is" said the king all pompous and I was already rolling my eyes, already asking them to cut my neck, I don't know how I can stand this little guy.
"And where is he?" At least one part of this will be solved and we will only need to find Alan.
"He's right here in front of you, greets King Feoras" Really? How Sifla has bad taste in friends.
I was with the most puzzled face, he was even getting up showing himself to everyone that he was adored by the city, but what a full of himself face, his ego is bigger than the little height that this kitten has and the worst of all is that Lotte is still adoring him, he is a cute kitten, if he was human he would be a hot man, but by the way he is the most boring thing I've ever seen, by the nine witches.
"So you're Feoras? And you left just to crown yourself king?" I say with rolled eyes.
"How dare you refer to the king like that" said one of the cats and I just showed him the tongue.
"You don't need to talk to these children like that, I'll do all the talking myself" he said.
"And we are not children, I am a girl! I am Atsuko Kagari and I am 15 years old!" I tell him very clearly.
"Okay child, allow me to say, our king has passed through the nine gates and gone from base, I ended up having to go and emergency character" He said and I was confused.
"Did it go through the nine gates? Was it from the base?" I ask him who runs a hand over his face.
"You mean he died Akko" Sucy said.
"Anyway continuing here, I had to leave for my royal duties, I can't just leave the fairy country without a king, so I left and had to take over as king now" He said.
"So go back to Sifla she needs you, is this silly position more important than your best friend?" I tell him.
"Hmpf, you are quite sharp with words child, but I will explain that I can't at the moment, I really wish I could, but I have a big responsibility with Cait Sith to fulfill and I have to save the fairy realm, you may not be aware but we have deadly enemies... The Cu Sith, led by Alan" What? At this I'm even in shock, I didn't expect him to reveal such a thing to me.
"So you mean to tell me that you and Alan are mortal enemies and yet you were being friends with Sifla?" I ask even getting puzzled and he just shrugs.
"We never showed our behaviour and rivalry in front of Sifla, but we tried not to let her know anything in order not to disappoint her, after all she has a beauty that enchants anyone, seeing that sad face is heartbreaking, but unfortunately that's it, I have to perform my duties" explains the cat all full of himself and this whole time they pretended everything so, poor Sifla.
"And why don't you put an end to it?" I ask him again and he even laughs.
"It's not that simple little girl, I wanted to go back to Sifla, but I have to become the king of the fairy country, but for that I would have to go through the ordeal of king, which is the most complicated of all, so I would have the power to go back to Sifla and everything would go well, I don't want Alan to win too" Feoras said.
"Well then, let's go to this ordeal! We'll finish all this at once" I tell them all motivated and sincerely wanting to put an end to all this, because it's a huge waste of time.
A loud howl starts to sound around the place, so we walk in the direction of the sound, this time free, but with the Cait Sith being the biggest slackers with us, kind of pushing us with their spears, those things hurt, they keep sticking my ass ahhh, when we arrive we notice a group of dogs, they must be the Cu Sith.
Much bigger than the Caith Sith, they were even human sized, dressed like cats, only much more imposing, huge dogs that were also holding three huge logs of wood with three girls tied up, when I go to see, there were Amanda, Constanze and Jasminka, I don't believe they came too.
O'Neill was pissed as always, to the point of being squeezed harder in the ropes and screaming of pain, already Antonenko with a lollipop that a Cu Sith was giving her, at least this, they don't want to see Jas' demon revealing itself if she leaves her hungry, already Cons was calm, we couldn't know her expression because she was always neutral.
"They are my friends, how did they get here? And wow are those the Cu Siths?" I say impressed.
"They must have circled the stone in an anti-clockwise direction, in that direction they were taken to the Cu Siths' realm, if it is clockwise, you stop in our realm" Feoras explains and now everything makes sense.
We even stood right in front of them, the huge Cu Siths facing the Cait Sith and us, they even look scary, but cute at the same time, I feel like caressing their bellies and calling them good boys, I have no doubt that these dogs must have the same weaknesses as the ones I know.
"Oh Akko, we saw everything, we knew you would get into trouble so we followed you talking to Sifla and we also decided to go round the rocks afterwards, but we stopped in the country of those dogs" she explains and I saw that this could get us into trouble, I hope teacher Finnelan hasn't woken up.
"And how did you do it without drawing attention from the teachers? We snuck around, we didn't want to attract attention under any circumstances" I ask her who shrugged her shoulders even though she was tied up.
"So we sort of took the brooms and flew around the rock as fast as we could, after all you know how me and the girls here are the fastest" We'll see after the summer if you have all that confidence O'Neill, I was unfairly disqualified, but I'm going to beat you and Diana with everything with my pure skill.
"Can you guys stop talking and focus here?" Said the little king who didn't have the necessary attention, he wants cock and doesn't know how to ask for it.
"So spit it out kitten" Amanda said, teasing Feoras.
"You are not going to kill each other, right? Look at the size of these guys, at the very least they will tear you apart, not wanting to be the pessimist" I tell the little king.
"No! We are mortal enemies, we always get into wars, but I have things to do, solving the issue with Sifla is the most important, where is that lazy Alan? I want to talk to him!" Said the feline lord Farquaad, I swear that this kitten is boring to death, Sifla has a bad taste for friends.
I hope Alan isn't like that, but when I went to see him, he was lying on a sled being pulled by the Cu Sith, as if he was making fun of us, I can't believe we have two idiot kings in charge of this place and on top of that he yawned in front of us rubbing his eyes, he was a bigger dog than the others, much stronger, but even so he was just a sleeper.
"Oh it's you Feoras" he said in a sleepy tone.
"Let's settle this once and for all Alan, we're going through the ordeal of the king of the fairy realm, I can't let you win, we have to get back to Sifla" Feoras is more motivated than anything by the looks of it.
"Ahhhh whatever, do it there, I don't mind, I just want to get back to Sifla too, you're always a hothead aren't you Feoras" I'm honestly loving Alan, he may be a slacker, but he's a slacker with personality.
"How dare Alan, this is a historic event, get off your ass and let's battle for this country, are you just going to lie there?" And I just kept holding in my laughter.
"I don't care, I told you, I just want to go back to Sifla, do what you want to do, I just want to finish this and take a well deserved nap" He said yawning.
"So that's it? We're just gonna sit around and wait for you two to do something? You're not going to do anything until one or the other answers the conditions, for the nine witches, how stupid you are, if you're going to sit on your asses then I'm going to take the ordeal to become king of the witches' country"
"Akko are you sure about that? You learned to fly by broom a short time ago, your magic has just awakened" said Sucy.
"I won't do it alone, let's show those soft arseholes who keep fighting that together we can do it" I say to everyone who half continue to disbelieve, but the Cait and Cu siths seem to be coming to a consensus at least.
"They can try, we don't stand a chance, the last person to do so was 300 years ago, the last king of the fairy country, one of the most peaceful and conflict-free periods here" Alan said.
"And I'm sure it was a Cait Sith who had been our king" Said the kitten who seems to want to make up for something.
"Then let me do it, I also want the help of these three" I tell them and they finally let them go.
At this time the six of us got together, like in the old days, which wasn't that long ago, but it was common at the beginning of classes for us to get ready together, before Diana got in the middle, now let's see what all this preparation is about, I even started to stretch myself, I may not be as strong as the Cu Sith, nor as smart as the Cait Siths, but at least I know I may have something to gain that they don't have, the teamwork, at that a group of them arrives, with three vials, I guess that should be it for the ordeal of becoming kings.
"This here is the elixir of kings, it is in it that all kings will have to take for the ordeal" Alan said as he was getting up from the sled.
"And we have to take this?" I ask them.
"If you really want to do the ordeal, it's a sacred liquid that has been around since the time of our last king" Feoras said, and I could smell the bitter smell of all kinds of spices and potions in one thing.
"That liquid is 300 years old! How do you think it's going to be OK to drink something that's that long old without it being spoiled?" I say in shock.
"Drink up, if you really want to become queen" he said.
I decide to cover my nose and put it in my mouth, I feel the bitter taste, a bit viscous, it seems that I'm drinking a goo, I even make force to swallow, because I sincerely feel that I'm going to put it all out, it seems like raw egg, I swear that I think I'll end up with a stomach upset after that, I don't have a cat's stomach or a dog's, what I end up feeling a bit groggy after drinking it.
"Akko? Akko? Akko!" These are the last things I end up hearing, before I fall to the ground fainted, I think I'm the one who ended up going through the nine gates.
I wake up kind of seeing something, it was a girl, with a dog and a cat, she looked like Sifla, but a grown up version of her, and what a beautiful woman, those two must be Alan and Feoras I'm sure, kind of strange feeling, I think it must be a sign that I'm dreaming.
"You guys fought again, didn't you? I told you I don't like to see you fighting, we have to be very friendly" said Sifla.
What I end up waking up after, out of nowhere, kind of strange the vision I had, but I see that the kitten was still on the floor sleeping, the dog too, that means I woke up first, I rub my eyes, I feel a pain in my back as usual, I must have fallen with everything on the floor, ahhh, well these things could be more subtle.
"Akko you were the first to wake up" Lotte said.
"I'm still a bit groggy, but I had an interesting dream, I saw Sifla grown up with these two" I tell them as I watch them wake up, kind of weird this whole thing that happened now, but at least now it seems I have a chance, who knew I could be the first witch queen of the fairy country and still of mundane origin.
"I know what you're thinking there Akko, don't forget about us too" Amanda appears at my side.
"I'm not going, now how does it go on?" I ask myself, still waiting for the two of them.
Alan is still in a deep sleep until Feoras kicks him to wake him up and the dog gets up, kind of yawning as always, half sleepy, I confess that Alan is the funniest of the two, always sleepy like that, he has charisma, now they are going to explain what we are going to do next, because I honestly don't know.
"And now what? You two, who are the experts here, what do we do?" I ask them.
"Now comes the hard part, you have only passed one stage of the ordeal, now you will have to pass it for good and it consists of reviving the trees of the fairyland," said Feoras.
"We can do it! This will be easy to do," I say confidently.
"Ahhhhhhhh, nobody has revived all the trees in all these years, it won't be an easy task, well let's take these ones to the trees soon, these girls are really being better than us" said Alan, of course you only think about your noses, that must be why it's not working out for these two
"The message is right here in the alphabet Luna, they are right, He who revives the sacred trees and makes the stars fall from the sky, will be the leader of the fairies" Lotte said and at that Amanda points her wand to the sky.
"This will be easy, Ea Lunag!" she said, conjuring a spell to call shooting stars, but nothing solved it.
Then, frustrated, she picked up her broom and flew towards the sky, as if to conjure the spell once again, but even though she repeated the same words louder and louder, nothing happened.
"Holy shit, is the magic here weak or something?" O'Neill asks.
"If it was because you are flying" Sucy said and she really wavered on that one.
"Then why doesn't it work" Amanda said angrily.
"Have you ever stopped to think that we have to revive the trees first" Sucy said and it's true, even the two of you said that, so that's what we are going to do.
"So let's revive those trees" I say confidently.
There are thirteen trees and thirteen months in the year of the fairies, at least this detail I could remember from those texts without being reminded the whole time by the girls coming to bother me about it, so each tree must represent a month of the fairy calendar I presume, so much that I made sure to tell the girls the same, but they came to bother me.
"Finally remembered something from the paper you copied" Sucy said sarcastically.
First of all we went to the first of all trees, a birch tree, I never thought I would see one of those in real life, I only saw it in minecraft, a really beautiful tree, its trunk is similar to the game, it's just not square hahaha, but I was still confused.
"And so what does reviving them mean? This tree looks very much alive to me" I ask them.
"The leaves of the tree were always spreading around the place, and we also used to drink panacea in the past" Feoras said, and I remembered the disgusting liquid from before.
"They say it is the source of the fairy king's power, so much so that Sifla was lamenting that the trees have been losing their strength" Alan said.
"So that means that by reviving the trees we will be able to restore the power of the fairy king" Lotte points out.
"Well then let's do something with those trees" said Sucy.
Lotte then invokes the tree's spirit, which will help us a lot to revive the tree, it's very good that finally we will have a chance to improve our magical capacity like this.
"Trees must have a spirit living in them, just like ancient tools usually do, this is a sacred tree so that's what I thought" Lotte said and how nice that she has a shop that specialises in summoning and spirit, plus she's the best at it.
"Well, I guess you'll have to sing in this Lotte" I tell her, and she looks a bit embarrassed.
"La-la-la-la, lu-la-la, lu-la-la-la" She started to make a very quiet and soft melody and so we'll start to make things even more interesting "Li-lu-lu-lu, lu-la-la, la-la-la-la" Lotte's voice is the most enchanting and cute thing and it was really sounding something in the tree too
The branches started to show their faces and move against each other in rhythm even with the music, a fog started to appear and as soon as it became thicker and more blurred, a pale and thin woman appeared in the shadows and so Lotte stopped singing and wow what a beautiful woman.
"That's right girls," said Alan.
"Hey! Hi!" I tried to communicate with the woman but nothing, she just went kind of ignoring everything and everyone, how weird.
"Well now that I've remembered, the birch and the sorrel are sister trees is what Sifla told us" Explains Alan and that's very good to know.
"The white birch is the lady of the forests, the sorbir tree is the lady of the mountains as their months are very close to each other" Complements Feoras and it doesn't even seem like the two live like cat and dog literally hahahaha.
We went to the ice-cream tree, which was very close, how wonderful, with that Lotte started to sing, but nothing was happening, not even the spirits were communicating with the trees, which is very strange, but soon Feoras appears to give us some help, I never thought that this cat would help in any way, stubborn and annoying as he is.
"The lady of the forest drinks the red fruit that is offered by her sister, under the leaves the birds are singing, the witch has been taking a moon bath and a bridge to the fairies' past will open" He said and I start connecting the dots.
"So that's it, we have to make the fruit from the ice-cream tree grow and give the fruit juice to the girl who appeared and thus we revive the first tree and the second tree too"
"Do Dollus" said Sucy using a spell that makes branches grow on the ice-cream tree, the tree that was all brown and half-dead starts to come to life again.
I love when magic does these things, the sorbets started to grow, beautiful fruits by the way, the tree was getting beautiful and revived, what then Jasminka appears and she goes sort of squeezing the fruits to make a juice of that, she even gets to give a sip and by the look on her face it seems to be quite delicious, I imagine that will help a lot, then she comes to the birch girl, who ends up drinking the liquid.
The two trees end up glowing, which is a sign that we are succeeding, we are already reviving the trees and with each step we achieve the step to reign the fairy country, but I just really want these two to come back to Sifla even if I have to be this way for that.
"That's wonderful, thanks Jas, you were great now" I tell her and she waves to me and I touch Amanda's hand, which we just celebrate, Jas as always being the glutton takes the opportunity to get some sodas and eat, they must be really delicious.
"Well done girls, now there are only eleven more trees to go" he said.
"I said that if we work as a team things get easier"
Under the leaves the birds are singing, we reach the third tree, this time it was one that apparently needed water and at this time conveniently Constanze shows up, I knew she was working on something and she appears with a bazooka in hand, facing the ash and shoots.
"Cons go easy you'll destroy the tree" I say as I see that the shot was strong to the point of going out in the biggest blast, I didn't even imagine it, but she seemed excited for what it looked like, but always with a closed face, where she was regulating to go less quantity.
"Don't forget the birdsong" Lotte said.
"That's in the nearby alder" Alan complements and so we went towards it, since ash was revived.
It also looked like a very old tree and that was the time that Amanda wanted to show up, she started to fly around the tree creating a whole trail with her flight, kind of giving the maneuvers that I was fed up of seeing her doing all the time, but at the same time it was a beautiful thing, she was causing the greatest effect impressing the Cu and Cait Sith the clouds were forming, but I couldn't see the birds.
"Ku Bhagga Lins!" Said Amanda conjuring a spell and look what came out, the birds came out, we are going very fast, the group work really helps in everything and with this a chorus was being formed between cats and dogs as the tree was being revived in a rhythm.
"We did it! We are too much!" I say celebrating.
"Well you haven't done anything so far Akko" said Feoras picking on me.
"I will still do it and you will see, the last part was the witch takes a moon bath and a bridge to the fairies with the past she will bring, I have heard that somewhere, ah yes the amulet" I say as I look at my wrist when I remembered that absorbing the moonlight makes it stronger.
Let's go to the fifth tree which is a willow tree, my bracelet glowed, it can only be the same one, I think now the cat will swallow his words, I'll do something, and out of nowhere I ended up seeing something different, as if I was in another place, Sifla appeared.
"What are you doing here?" I ask her.
"What are you doing here? I'm the one who asks" said the little girl.
"Wait a minute. This is the country of..." Next thing I know I wasn't even there.
"Did you find Feoras and Alan?" she asks.
Akko briefly explains what ended up rolling...
"Those two... So that was it, Feoras wants to be king of the fairies and thus let everyone know that I am their guardian?" she said half-heartedly.
"I don't know if that was the reason, but yes" I tell her.
"So I don't think I need to be recognised as one, will he give up and go back home?" she asks, already getting more crestfallen.
"I will bring him back, I dreamt of a girl who looked like you, older, they were with you" I say at the same time she was disappearing, it must have been something crazy and senseless that I hallucinated.
"Akko!" Shouts Sucy calling my attention, I must have been groggy in front of them, at least I didn't faint.
"I must have breezed in here" I see she was holding a potion and holy shit I even forgot.
"Remember the Atsuko Kagari promise" She said and I swallowed saliva.
"Okay, Sucy, just do it, it's all about the trees, isn't it?"
I take the bottle and drink it, the liquid is worse than the other one from 300 years ago, it even made it look like a coke, this one is much more bitter, the taste was even making me dizzy, by the nine witches how can she do these things.
"Well they say that fairies live in the thorn trees and that their memories live in their branches, so I did you this little favour since the willow tree has revived let's go to the sixth tree and you are the witch with Sifla's willow bracelet, so it's the important one" she said until I fell groggy on the ground again.
Sifla again appeared in my dream, how strange, well at least things will work out when I wake up, that is if I can handle the hawthorn in my stomach, I see her again with Alan and Feoras.
"Did you know? They say shooting stars make wishes, but I'm not strong enough to call one, for each fairy on the hill, not just me, the three of us will lead the hill together in harmony, the cats will bring freedom, the dogs loyalty, and the witches the power to protect, as long as we continue to ally and join forces we will preserve peace on this hill, together we will be the king of the fairies and it won't work if any of us are left out... All right? It's a promise" Sifla said and I open my eyes even crying with the message so that's it... Sifla was out, but she is an essential piece, I think there must have been another Sifla before, the king from 300 years ago was the three of them.
I wake up seeing everyone admiring the glow of the willow and the hawthorn, in the end there were six trees revived, almost half of them, which is a good sign, but I need to tell them about this thing I discovered, I get up and go to the girls.
"Listen, I had a dream about Sifla again" I tell everyone who turns to me.
"Oh that's good, you found out more?" Feoras asks.
"Neither a Cait Sith nor a Cu Sith are the best to run these hills, but rather it's a team effort, where everyone has to be in this together - I tell them they're going to kind of not care much, but I already have a feeling that Sifla should be here.
POV Narrator:
The Cait and Cu Sith reveal themselves to the girls and it wasn't just Akko, Lotte and Sucy who were penetrating the middle, but also had the presence of Amanda, Jasminka and Constanze, which they all joined forces with the two clans in a mission to revive the trees and even bring peace and unity to the fairy realm, but kind of still have a bigger key to this achievement that Akko is already about to discover.
See you, dog and cat witches...